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RESOURCE: New Roles for New Times: Transforming Liaison Roles in Research Libraries

Sep

10

2013

A new report from ARL, New Roles for New Times: Transforming Liaison Roles in Research Libraries [pdf], by Janice M. Jaguszewski and Karen Williams, draws on “interviews with administrators at five ARL libraries (Duke University, University of Guelph, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, North Carolina State University, and Purdue University) and the authors’ own extensive experience in research ...

RESOURCE: Best of Both Worlds: Museums, Libraries, and Archives in a Digital Age

Sep

9

2013

G. Wayne Clough, the Secretary of the Smithsonian Insitution, recently published a freely available ebook outlining the efforts of libraries, archives, and museums like the Smithsonian, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the British Library to create and sustain digital strategies while maintaining meaningful in-person experiences. Clough calls for collaboration among institutions as well as ...

RESOURCE: Now Available, Software Takes Command, Open Access Edition

Sep

9

2013

Lev Manovtch has announced an Open Access edition of his new book Software Takes Command, published by Bloomsbury Academic. First released in July 2013, as volume 5 of a series of International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics, the book traces the concepts and techniques of contemporary software like Photoshop, Illustrator, and Final Cut back to development ...

The Process is the Thing: Lessons from Serendip-o-matic

Sep

4

2013

Meghan Frazer, Digital Resources Curator at the Knowlton School of Architecture at the Ohio State University, recently served as co-project manager for Serendip-o-matic, a search tool built in just one week. In this post, she shares her primary takeaways from the experience. Serendip-o-matic is a tool that connects a researcher’s sources to digital materials located ...

CFP: Digital Humanities 2014

Sep

3

2013

A call for proposals for Digital Humanities 2014, in Lausanne, Switzerland, has been issued in 11 languages. From the announcement: The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submissions of abstracts for its annual conference, on any aspect of the digital humanities. This includes but is not limited to: humanities research enabled through digital media, ...

POST: Creating Themes in Omeka 2.0

Sep

3

2013

Margaret Heller (Digital Services Librarian, Loyola University) has written a brief introduction to creating custom themes in Omeka 2.0 on the ACRL TechConnect blog. For libraries that already have Omeka installed, have access to the code, and have multiple groups requesting Omeka sites, creating a theme template can be a useful way to scale what your library ...

EVENT: 2013 NFAIS Annual Humanities Roundtable

Sep

3

2013

A meeting of the National Federation of Advanced Information Studies (NFAIS) Humanities Roundtable will take place in Chicago on September 30th. According to the organizers, this year’s event “offers a chance to learn from active leaders in the field about projects in the digital humanities, content enrichment and linked data, assessing usage and user behavior ...

POST: Crowdsourcing Best Practices for Experimental Journals: Transparency

Sep

3

2013

Drawing on her recent experience working with the Journal of Digital Humanities, Adeline Koh (Assistant Professor of Literature, Stockton College) has invited input on best practices for increasing transparency in the publication process for academic journals. Starting with ideas offered by Roopika Risam and Scott Weingart, Koh seeks to develop practices that take into consideration ...

CFP: Help to Pick Panels for the 2014 South By Southwest Conference

Sep

3

2013

As Butch Lazorchak (Library of Congress) points out in a recent post on The Signal: SXSW has now become so popular that the jockeying for presentation slots now commences months before the conference. The process of choosing panels includes a crowd-sourced aspect called the Panelpicker that engages the public to vote on the panels they’d be more interested in ...

POST: How Did They Make That?

Sep

3

2013

Miriam Posner has crafted a useful introduction to some exemplary digital humanities projects, outlining the tools and technology used to create each and giving helpful pointers to resources for getting started with them. She writes: Many students tell me that in order to get started with digital humanities, they’d like to have some idea of ...

JOB: Digital Projects Specialist, UWM Libraries

Sep

3

2013

From the announcement: UWM Libraries seeks an energetic, knowledgeable, and technologically capable individual to serve as a Digital Projects Specialist. This position supports resource and digital collection development in the Library’s Digitization Department. The department has been building digital collections drawn from the Library’s unique collections in Archives, Special Collections and the American Geographical Society Library ...